Was just telling the wife on the way to dinner that I needed to go catch me a few turtles since its been a long while since I have ate any. Got home and my neighbor tells me he caught a big turtle and asked me if I wanted it. Fills up the bottom of a 55 galon drum.

now proceed to feed him corn for a few months and call me when the sauce is done!

Yuck

Sauce piquant!!

Looks like you will get a good bit of meat off that one.looks like it
ways around 50 to 60 pnds.

check this turtle and drum out poker.
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Just emagine the suprise when trying catch catfish noodleing and
that champs down onto you.I think you come out with a missing
body part.

How you cook it? Heard of turtle soup but can ya fry it? I'd try it if someone cooked it that knew how to do it. As far as going out and getting me a turtle to cook...that's a nogo.. In a couple wks when I get my boat together me and a buddy are gonna go try to put the hurt on some frogs tho.

Turtle rice N gravy. Mmmmmm

How do you kill em before you clean em?

Ax right behind the skull. They bleed real well and don't put up much fight after that.

We fry alot of our turtle. We also make burgoo with turtle meat. google burgoo you will like this soup. Ask T al and his dad Big Al. We make about 10-15 gals each fall with all of the meat left in the freezer and the garden left overs.
You guys who cook will really like burgoo.

How do you catch them, I mean, on purpose. I've had em jugs before.

I used to ketch them with freswater green eals,because that seems
to stay on the line better.I ketch the I ponds and in the swamp.use just
a line tied to a tree with about a one inch cut eal.Just throw the line out
and make sure it hits the bottom.

Mad mofo. Course I dont blaim him seeing whats I have in mind......

Thanks. Now, how do you catch eels?

Ahhh, you guys are killing me

Or you can use a turtle trap.

Ny Dad caught one 148 lbs on a troutline a few years back by Lake Fausse Point. It even made the local paper ,The Teche News. Biggest one I have ever seen.

u got a pic?

Haven't had a good loggerhead in a while, how do you guys clean em? I remember my grandpa doing it with boiling water somehow.

Ive never caught one besides one just crossing the road or what not, or cleaned one. Love to eat em though. Would love to catch one one day.

No pic of turtle, sorry I am offshore and pic is at my Dad's.

Here is a good video from S LA. I originally thought that was Marty......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quiDGogfllE

love some good turtle stew. my graddeddy use to make it all the time.He would feed them bread for 2 or 3 weeks then go to cooken. i use to grab a few when i saw them crossing the road.

I've been getting alot of soft shell turtles on my catfish jugs. anyone have any experience with those?

Don't lump me in with all the Yankees who don't like turlte, that is some of the best shit to eat outta the river, we use to be able to catch them in the winter and keep them down in the cellar alive, now they put a season on them and it doesn't start till July

I think there should be an over/under slot limit on those turtles shell size so that those big boys could propagate the species. Bet there aren't too many that size left out there.

Besides, if you want rice and gravy get you some stew meat from the store and have at it!
Not much difference in taste!!

I find a buck knife and a hammer does good, never tried a sawsall to split the shell. what type of blade you use for that?

hatchet works fine too. Id think a sawsall would make a big mess to get the same job done

When I fished them I used a electric chainsaw To cut the shell